Eddie Henderson (born October 26, 1940) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.
Eddie Henderson
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Eddie Henderson in 2017
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| Birth name | Edward Jackson Henderson |
| Born | (1940-10-26) October 26, 1940 (age 83) New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Trumpet |
| Years active | 1970–present |
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Henderson was born in New York City on October 26, 1940.[1] At the age of nine he was given an informal lesson by Louis Armstrong, and he continued to study the instrument as a teenager in San Francisco, where he grew up, after his family moved there in 1954, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.[1][2]
Henderson was influenced by the early fusion work of jazz musician Miles Davis, who was a friend of his parents.[2] They met in 1957 when Henderson was aged seventeen.[1]
After completing his medical education, Henderson went back to the Bay area for his medical internship and residency.[1] It was a week-long gig with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band that led to a three-year job, lasting from 1970 to 1973.[1] In addition to the three albums recorded by the group under Hancock's name, Henderson recorded his first two albums, Realization (1972) and Inside Out (1973), with Hancock and the Mwandishi group.[1]
After leaving Hancock, the trumpeter worked extensively with Pharoah Sanders, Mike Nock, Norman Connors, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers,[1] returning to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 where he joined the Latin-jazz group Azteca and fronted his own bands.[1] While he gained some recognition for his work with the Herbie Hancock Sextet (1970–1973), his own records were considered too "commercial".[3]
After three years in the Air Force, Henderson enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.S. in zoology in 1964.[1] He then studied medicine at Howard UniversityinWashington D.C., graduating in 1968.[1] Though he undertook his residency in psychiatry, he practiced general medicine.[4]
Eddie Henderson is married to Natsuko Henderson. His daughter, Cava Menzies, is a musician and educator. Both his wife and daughter contribute compositions to his albums. [5]
Henderson's only UK hit was the single "Prance On" recorded for Capitol which reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1978.[6]
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With Joe Farnsworth
With Benny Golson
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